Catholic Charities Ends Adoptions Over Civil Unions

[w8liftinglady]

http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2011/05/27/Catholic_Charities_Ends_Adoptions_Over_Civil_Unions/

Catholic Charities of Rockford, Ill. has stopped providing adoption and foster care services rather than comply with a new civil unions law in the state.

According to the Huffington Post, “The move comes after months of drama in Springfield over an amendment to the Illinois Religious Freedom Protection and Civil Unions Act, which goes into effect June 1. The law says that if an agency receives state money, it cannot discriminate against same-sex couples, and must treat people in civil unions as it would treat married couples.”

The Illinois legislature voted down an amendment promoted by Catholic Charities and other religious and conservative groups to exempt faith-based organizations from allowing adoptions or foster care applications from same-sex couples. Catholic Charities of Rockford announced its new policy on Thursday in response to the legislature.

HuffPo reports that Catholic Charities of Rockford, which has a state budget of $7.5 million, handles around 350 foster family and adoption cases in 11 counties in northern Illinois. The Rockford diocese announced that about 58 employees would be terminated when they drop their current contracts in response to the civil unions law.

An Illinois Department of Children and Family Services spokesperson expressed confidence that the agency could handle the children displaced as a result of the move, as well any children potentially affected if other Catholic Charities agencies in the state drop their contracts.

[DirkGently]

1. Enjoy that ideological purity (& resulting social irrelevance) there, Church.

[Zorra]

2. Probably best for the children to take adoption decisons out of their hands anyway.

This will undoubtedly save a lot of kids from having their lives ruined by being given over to the control of insane RW fundy wackos by hate based religious organizations.

State social workers are generally more intelligent, more compassionate, and more discriminate about placing children into genuinely good homes with loving parents than bigoted hate groups are.

As someone that was repeatedly smacked, pulled, pinched, yanked, and hit with sticks over a period of years by insane hate filled nuns in the classroom, I think this could be a tremendous blessing for kids in need of loving parents.
:applause:

[joeybee12]

3. Nice, they hold so dear to their bigotry they want to phuck over the kids...

What a-holes.